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Anonymous
12/27/25(Sat)20:05:37 No.107688389

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Anonymous 12/27/25(Sat)20:05:37 No.107688389

For how long can you maintain a codebase until it becomes so old that you have to take everything and dump it into the nearest garbage bin and start over?

Anonymous
12/27/25(Sat)20:09:46 No.107688417

Anonymous 12/27/25(Sat)20:09:46 No.107688417

>>107688389
Ask the banks and financial institutions still using FORTRAN.

Anonymous
12/27/25(Sat)20:13:32 No.107688434

Anonymous 12/27/25(Sat)20:13:32 No.107688434

>>107688389
>bill gates rape kids

What did she mean by this

Anonymous
12/27/25(Sat)20:19:02 No.107688471

Anonymous 12/27/25(Sat)20:19:02 No.107688471

>>107688417
I assume if you don't have to add new features on that thing, or at very few features, it might be worth to just leave it like that. And paying the high salary of FORTRAN or COBOL programmers ends up being worth for the company.

I assume banking is also particularly uneasy about changing codebases because you really don't want to screw that up when you are dealing with people's money.

Anonymous
12/27/25(Sat)20:19:47 No.107688478

Anonymous 12/27/25(Sat)20:19:47 No.107688478

>>107688417
i just was thinking this the other day. now with "ai" anyone can mantain fortran

Anonymous
12/27/25(Sat)20:32:11 No.107688550

Anonymous 12/27/25(Sat)20:32:11 No.107688550

>>107688478
Thank -od I moved all of my assets away from the traditional financial system over the past few years.

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